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What he said to me a thousand times as I was growing up and reading to him all the time: "The foundation of the United States is due process of law." I hear that thundering in my head every day of my life. And then when I see due process of law being thrown out the window...
...realistic picture of the cost and commitment, it might balk at authorizing the war. That was the reason Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz jumped so aggressively down the throat of General Eric Shinseki when the latter suggested to Congress that the occupation mission would require a "few hundred thousand" troops. It wasn't that Wolfowitz was seized by some Rumsfeldian "new-generation warfare" fever; he was simply determined to eliminate any political obstacle to the invasion...
...argument that more troops should have been sent doesn't reckon with the difficulties the U.S. military has faced in sustaining even the current deployment. The strain on U.S. military resources would have precluded sustaining the deployment of "several hundred thousand" troops in Iraq for more than a few months. And it's hopelessly na?ve to imagine that this would somehow have created a window for the emergence of a new democratic Wal-Mart nation that would have prevented the emergence of the darker impulses on view today...
...days that I’ve spent with the twins since they were born that day in January three years ago. Eighty-three.Eighty-three! Yeah, that’s still way too many smelly diapers and messy spills. But it’s also too many skipped birthdays and a thousand missed firsts. I couldn’t even find a picture of me with the twins for this Endpaper! Overachievers are loathe to admit to faults, but I am ready to admit this: I am a bad big sister...
...rally around me, stalwart haters of artificiality. McMansion delenda est! Let us sow salt into the well-manicured lawns of these suburbanites, so that they will live without their lush Kentucky Bluegrass for a thousand years...